About Me

Sloan Elle Garner Stuart (she/her) is a production dramaturg, director, and intimacy choreographer with experience in devising, musical theatre, and adaptation. Her practice relies on offering tangible and relational experiences to casts, crews, and audiences to deepen relationships to texts and narratives. She is the Southeast Regional Vice President of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and an alumnae of Alpha Psi Omega.

She graduated from Mississippi School of the Arts with discipline focuses in theatre and music before earning her B.A. in Theatre from the University of Southern Mississippi, where she minored in Applied Music - Bassoon, graduated from the Honors College summa cum laude, and published her thesis entitled “Three Forms of Death in David Rabe’s The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones.” She then obtained her M.A. in Theatre with a focus in dramaturgy from Villanova University, where she was a Thomas and Tracey Gravina Endowed Scholar. Sloan is currently a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Georgia, where she has served as Dramaturgy Mentor and Instructor of Record for Dramaturgy, Voices of Diversity in American Theatre and Drama, and Script Analysis. While at UGA, she has been the recepient of multiple grants and awards, including the Willson Center for the Humanities Graduate Research Award, an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, and the August and Patrica Staub Graduate Student Award. Previously, she has worked as Program Coordinator of the Theatre and Dance Departments at Eastern University, Dramaturg in Residence at Evergreen Theatre Collective, and Theatre Instructor at Grenada High School.

Sloan’s research specialty is in Southeastern identity, and her projected dissertation will be using archival work to string together the first ever narrative of Atlanta theatre history in the New South, 1866-1953. Favorite projects include: Sunday in the Park with George (dramaturg, Villanova Theatre), Move (music director), and John Proctor Is the Villain (director, UGA Theatre). She frequently presents at the annual conferences for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, American Society for Theatre Research, Mid-America Theatre Conference, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

With the moniker “Southern Directurg,” Sloan is passionate about uplifting communities in the rural Southeastern U.S. and Southern Appalachia through education, community resources, empathy, and art.